A new set of x264 and vpxenc encoder benchmarks have been published. The new benchmarks address many of the concerns raised in the comments about the methodology used in the previous article, such as using SSIM for quality measurement. Theora is also included in these tests.

And I live in neither! Patent's in my country are very much explicitly forbidden. Click on my name to see where I live. PS: Oh, and yeah. Since the my country is quite small and I personally know the PM, previous PM, head of the patent office and some important politicians(it's not that unusual in my country), I can pretty much be sure that software patents will never be legalised. Though I am sure that hardware encoders and decoders are very much covered by patents. Software is 100% not.

As a resident of Lithuania who is happily untroubled by software patents, you can still help out the rest of your fellow men and women who live in countries not so blessed by refraining to use patented proprietary technologies over the web. It is the worldwide web, after all.

As a resident of Lithuania who is happily untroubled by software patents, you can still help out the rest of your fellow men and women who live in countries not so blessed by refraining to use patented proprietary technologies over the web. It is the worldwide web, after all.

Personally I feel hosting material -- binaries, source-code, documentation, study material etc. -- that might be of questionable legality elsewhere would be much more beneficial worldwide than just stopping to use H.264. Hosting such would benefit several people whereas refraining from using patented technology would only benefit himself, if even himself either.

"As a resident of Lithuania who is happily untroubled by software patents, you can still help out the rest of your fellow men and women who live in countries not so blessed by refraining to use patented proprietary technologies over the web. It is the worldwide web, after all.

Personally I feel hosting material -- binaries, source-code, documentation, study material etc. -- that might be of questionable legality elsewhere would be much more beneficial worldwide than just stopping to use H.264. Hosting such would benefit several people whereas refraining from using patented technology would only benefit himself, if even himself either. "

Why Is Microsoft Seeking New State Laws That Allow it to Sue Competitors For Piracy by Overseas Suppliers?

tl;dr - Nope, that won't help you at all.

Your only hope is for everyone, worldwide, to use royalty-free technologies. Win, win, win for everybody.

Anyone, anywhere, using proprietary technologies without paying US software patents rent ... a world of legal hurt is headed the way of US residents and companies. It is the US residents and US companies who will pay.